[Gllug] ALSA sound driver problems

[will]

Paul Brazier wrote:

>>Well, I have a nice new motherboard with an onboard sound card. 
>>sndconfig reported that I have a VIA Technologies|AC97 card 
>>and that I 
>>needed the ALSA driver.  I downloaded it and 2 other tar.gz packages 
>>that I needed and tried to compile them by doing a ./configure:
> 
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use 
>>kernel-headers system headers,
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but rather 
>>headers from an 
>>appropriate kernel-source package.
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:3:2: #error Change 
>>-I/usr/src/linux/include (or similar) to
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:4:2: #error -I/lib/modules/$(uname 
>>-r)/build/include
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:5:2: #error to build against the 
>>currently-running kernel.
>>
> 
> I think I'm having slightly similar problems. (See my earlier post a few
> days ago).
> As I understand it, the C header files that were used to compile the
> current kernel are at /usr/include/linux/ and these are needed to
> compile the ALSA module (so it knows what "hooks" are in the kernel). If
> you compile some other kernels their header files will be slightly
> different, and will go in /usr/include/linux-2.4.13/ etc. (one for each
> version)
> 
> For some reason I'm not sure of you can't just use the running kernel's
> headers, you have to have the entire kernel source code in
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.13/ or whatever. (The Kernel Compiling HOWTO  and the
> kernel README has stuff on this). Perhaps the standard RH7.2 kernel
> doesn't have support for the ALSA module or something?


I have the whole kernel source in /usr/src/linux-2.4.xx/ I think, so I 
have the right files but they are being looked for in the wrong place? 
If so, does anyone have any idea how I make the ALSA install program 
look in the right place or do I have completely the wrong end of the 
stick.  I also have the file /usr/include/linux/modversions.h
  that the error message appears to be refferencing.

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